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You don't need Windows to use Active Directory.

Active Directory is a Microsoft product, which, last I knew, only runs on Windows.

Active Directory implements LDAP, and there are serveral other LDAP implementations. Other OSes can use Active Directory as an LDAP server, sure.

Oh? Please elaborate. I always assumed Active Directory = Windows.

Decently common to have a cloud AD instance for your internal “users table” even if all the use cases are web/Mac/Linux.

Doesn't AWS have it as a service? Possibly also an OSS project?